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UK's M&S selects Blue Yonder's Luminate Planning for supply chain
14 May '21
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has selected Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning cloud-based solutions in order to reduce costs and improve stock flow by re-engineering its end-to-end supply chain. M&S is a leading and iconic British retailer. Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfilment, which is headquartered in the US.
Blue Yonder has now completed implementation of its demand and fulfilment capabilities through Luminate Planning so M&S can quickly pivot to consumers’ rapidly changing shopping patterns in order to address demand, particularly across online channels. Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning, a cloud-based solutions portfolio built on Microsoft Azure, provides M&S with a more accurate view into demand by consolidating and synchronising demand signals, as well as external variables across the retailers’ 1,000 stores. M&S can now evaluate demand scenarios and use prescriptive recommendations to make more accurate decisions; from staging the right inventory through the distribution network to minimising stock-outs and maximising inventory turns, Blue Yonder said in a media statement.
Implementing Blue Yonder’s solution is an important early step in M&S’s supply chain modernisation and provides a strong foundation for its supply chain, removing barriers to further accelerate the supply chain speed to provide the best service for its customers. For M&S colleagues it offers a better experience with a modern, user-friendly and highly-configurable solution to respond to fast changes in the market, Blue Yonder said.
“As part of our fast-moving Never the Same Again programme we’re re-engineering our clothing & home supply chain, this means ensuring our market-leading demand platform remains up to date. We’ve worked collaboratively with Blue Yonder, our long-time supply chain provider, and other partners to digitally transform from on-premises to cloud-based architecture. The ability to access new Luminate Planning capabilities will help us increase the speed of our supply chain to be more agile, with a strong, modern, supply chain platform foundation, ultimately better serving our customer online and in-store,” Matt Horwood, chief technology officer, M&S clothing & home said in a statement.
“By migrating to our cloud-based solution built on Microsoft Azure, M&S now has a more adaptive supply chain that can quickly pivot as customer demand changes, whether in stores, online or other channels. M&S is a very strategic customer for Blue Yonder, we continue to enable the M&S transformation journey hand-in-hand with our strategic partners. It is exciting to participate in the acceleration of M&S’s transformation into a leaner, faster, bolder business,” Johan Reventberg, president, EMEA, Blue Yonder said.
The new deployment is the latest example of Blue Yonder working in collaboration with M&S and other tech partners as part of the retailer’s transformation. Last year, M&S combined Blue Yonder’s workforce management solution and Microsoft teams to ensure that each of its stores has the right colleague working the right shift at the right time; M&S’s workforce can see and swap shifts, review their schedule and make changes as needed no matter where they are.
Blue Yonder has now completed implementation of its demand and fulfilment capabilities through Luminate Planning so M&S can quickly pivot to consumers’ rapidly changing shopping patterns in order to address demand, particularly across online channels. Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning, a cloud-based solutions portfolio built on Microsoft Azure, provides M&S with a more accurate view into demand by consolidating and synchronising demand signals, as well as external variables across the retailers’ 1,000 stores. M&S can now evaluate demand scenarios and use prescriptive recommendations to make more accurate decisions; from staging the right inventory through the distribution network to minimising stock-outs and maximising inventory turns, Blue Yonder said in a media statement.
Implementing Blue Yonder’s solution is an important early step in M&S’s supply chain modernisation and provides a strong foundation for its supply chain, removing barriers to further accelerate the supply chain speed to provide the best service for its customers. For M&S colleagues it offers a better experience with a modern, user-friendly and highly-configurable solution to respond to fast changes in the market, Blue Yonder said.
“As part of our fast-moving Never the Same Again programme we’re re-engineering our clothing & home supply chain, this means ensuring our market-leading demand platform remains up to date. We’ve worked collaboratively with Blue Yonder, our long-time supply chain provider, and other partners to digitally transform from on-premises to cloud-based architecture. The ability to access new Luminate Planning capabilities will help us increase the speed of our supply chain to be more agile, with a strong, modern, supply chain platform foundation, ultimately better serving our customer online and in-store,” Matt Horwood, chief technology officer, M&S clothing & home said in a statement.
“By migrating to our cloud-based solution built on Microsoft Azure, M&S now has a more adaptive supply chain that can quickly pivot as customer demand changes, whether in stores, online or other channels. M&S is a very strategic customer for Blue Yonder, we continue to enable the M&S transformation journey hand-in-hand with our strategic partners. It is exciting to participate in the acceleration of M&S’s transformation into a leaner, faster, bolder business,” Johan Reventberg, president, EMEA, Blue Yonder said.
The new deployment is the latest example of Blue Yonder working in collaboration with M&S and other tech partners as part of the retailer’s transformation. Last year, M&S combined Blue Yonder’s workforce management solution and Microsoft teams to ensure that each of its stores has the right colleague working the right shift at the right time; M&S’s workforce can see and swap shifts, review their schedule and make changes as needed no matter where they are.
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